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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
affianced en · ADJ
Meanings
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(literary, not-comparable) engaged; betrothed
Their relationship, closeted because Wani is nominally affianced, isn't the only secret they share: Wani has introduced Nick to cocaine, a different line of beauty and emblematic of the perilous gratifications the 1980's have seemingly underwritten.
2004 October 31, Anthony Quinn, “'The Line of Beauty': The Last Good Summer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Deriveds
unaffianced
affianced en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of affiance